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...sciences. Professor Benjamin F. Wright, who has been guiding the crystallization of General Education plans, Thomas L. P. O'Donnell '47, representing student opinion, Professor I. A. Richards, who will help to develop the new educational philosophy in his humanities course next year, and Provost Paul H. Buck, a specialist in the social sciences...
...Committee did not presume to specify methods, however, he explained so techniques have been left for development by "teachers' teachers." Chosen for their wide educational experience new additions to the faculty will include Lawrence Opler a specialist in historical anthropology, and Fl etcher Watson, a scientist who is personally acquainted with school systems in several other sections of the country...
...author of the report was a newsman. Llewellyn White, 46, had worked for the Paris Herald, the Literary Digest, Newsweek and the Chicago Sun. Fortnight ago he went to London to join UNESCO's staff. The other, Dr. Robert D. Leigh,. 55, was a progressive-education specialist, founding president of Bennington College, director of FCC's foreign broadcast intelligence service for two wartime years. Their major proposals...
Spencer, tall (a stooping 6 ft. 5 in.), strawberry-blond, and handsome, is a specialist in Elizabethan tragedy and modern poetry. Dressed in tweed jacket, grey flannels and loud bow tie, he grips his lectern and recites poetry in a flowing, resonant voice and a Philadelphia accent improved in Britain. Characteristic advice to students: to understand James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, "lie on your bed, hold the book over you, and let the words just pour down." Next year, to the two courses he now teaches to Harvard and Radcliffe students, he will add English V-the Boylston course...
Following the position set forth in his latest book, "Teacher in America," on the mass production method in American pedagogy, Barzun again asserted that the lecture, as such, slanted from the specialist's outlook, has little value in presenting general education...